FLASHBACK : Obama Secretly Gave Iran $33.6 Billion in Cash and Gold 2014-2016
In light of Iran’s recent defiant missile test, let’s look back at how many billions Obama foolishly gave Iran in order to get nothing back in return.
Democrats love to make up complete fiction about Trump being controlled by Putin. They never care to be bothered by the fact Obama sure acted like a puppet to Iran.
From FreeBeacon
Iran may have received an additional $33.6 billion in secret cash and gold payments facilitated by the Obama administration between 2014 and 2016, according to testimony provided before Congress by an expert on last summer’s nuclear agreement with Iran.
Between January 2014 and July 2015, when the Obama administration was hammering out the final details of the nuclear accord, Iran was paid $700 million every month from funds that had previously been frozen by U.S. sanctions.
A total of $11.9 billion was ultimately paid to Iran, but the details surrounding these payments remain shrouded in mystery, according to Mark Dubowitz, executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
In total, “Iran may have received as much as $33.6 billion in cash or in gold and other precious metals,” Dubowitz disclosed.
New questions about these payments are emerging following confirmation from top Obama administration officials on Thursday that it was forced to pay Iran $1.7 billion in cash prior to the release of several U.S. hostages earlier this year. The administration insisted that cash had to be used for this payment.
Top administration officials were adamant that the cash payments were the best way to ensure that Iran got immediate access to this money due to its ongoing difficulty accessing international funds still sanctioned by the West.
Lawmakers and others are now pressing the administration to disclose how a slew of other payments to Iran were made in the years leading up to the final nuclear accord.
“In July, the Associated Press cited U.S. officials who estimated that Iran ‘brought home less than $20 billion.’ Were these funds repatriated to Tehran in cash or in gold and precious metals? Through the formal financial system? Or through some combination?” Dubowitz asked in his testimony before the House Financial Services Committee.
“The administration should also clarify if the $20 billion dollars is inclusive of the $11.9 billion in [Joint Plan of Action] funds, or if the $20 billion was in addition to the $11.9 billion,” he said. “Either way, it is important to understand how funds were sent. The worst-case scenario here is that Iran may have received as much as $33.6 billion in cash or in gold and other precious metals.”
At least some of this money was likely sent in cash and other assets, according to Dubowitz.
The Obama administration was forced to disclose on Thursday that current sanctions and banking restrictions prohibited it from transferring funds to Iran via electronic methods.
The cash payment of $1.7 billion earlier this year was the easiest way to ensure Iran got immediate access to the money, according to these officials.
“Iran had to have it in cash,” Paul Ahern, assistant general counsel for enforcement and intelligence at the Treasury Department, told lawmakers. “Iran was very aware of the difficulties it would face in accessing and using the funds if they were in any other form than cash, even after the lifting of sanctions.”
A cash delivery “was the most reliable way that they received the funds in a timely manner and it was the manner preferred by the relative foreign banks,” Ahren said.
Given the situation, it is likely that the multiple past payments to Iran were conducted in a similar fashion, according to Dubowitz.
“If the White House could only send cash to Iran from the start of the JPOA period through the Tribunal payment that could amount to a grant total of 33.6 billion,” he said. “Did any of this money go through the formal financial system? If so, the administration is not being truthful about the 1.7 billion. If many billions arrived in Iran on pallets [of cash] this would be a pretty astounding revelation.”
Congress needs to get off their butts and do something to stop this idiot from totally ruining our country! He needs to be tried for treason and jailed after he is made to pay back to the government all he has spent on vacations and given to Iran.
You should expect the worst with Clinton. You should now be calling your friends, telling them the importance of having Donald in the white house. Hey!!!!!!!!!!!
How can such blatant disregard for Congressional prerogative-the Senate votes on all treaties, yay or nay, and both houses are suppose to vote on expenditures. It is this arrogant broaching of the law and ignoring our whole system of checks and balances that have gotten us the financial shithole we’re in now.
My country has fallen for the biggest hoax in American History,Barnun, Maddoff, Ponzi, all learners with this Chicago Mob in the white house, no disrespect to our house but refuse to use capital letters for the current occupants, I have said for a few years that the other president in the white house is valerie jarret an iranian and part of the muslim brotherhood as her parents are and the rest of her family-she will be Queen when she goes back if not arrested first -to gift her country $33.6 billion as a present, non traceable cash, gold ,silver, we are stupid and where are our elected officials scrambling to get re-elected to stay on the gravy train we are all paying for-the exact reason that this country was founded- we are paying taxation with no representation, no listening to the people they represent- – – – think my fellow Americans this has to come to a halt. If Trump does not make it in November then we will be extinguished as a race, a religion and way of life that benefited millions of people in the 275 odd years of this Great Country.
I am sad to say that my children and grandchildren will bear the brunt of this corrupt president and his cohorts in the coming years.Obama and his family have spit in our faces and laughed about it.He has cost the tax payers billions of dollars and she with her extravagant vacations to the finest places money can buy.Maybe there’s enough left in the White House,which Hilary didn’t steal so they can make ends meet when his term is over,it can’t come too soon.Or they could probably borrow some funds from the Clinton foundation ,but then that would only leave 5percent going to the people who deserve it.We are in for a long ride people.
You better believe that if hundreds of pallets of cash and precious metals went to Iran then many of those mysteriously arrived at one of Obama’s homes. Hey, the President gets his taste of the action.
Dobowitz syndrom look it up.
Can something not be done now with Obama to take him out of control of leadership of our country now that this is brought to the surface. He’s already told us he is spending 29 million to rig the polls
Gail, Yes something can be done and it’s called IMPEACHMENT!! But in order for that to happen, someone that has not been Bought an Payed for has to GROW A SET Of BALLS. THEN AND ONLY THEN the process can begin to IMPEACH, ARREST Him AND BE TRIED FOR TREASON against Our Country.
It needs to happen NOW before it’s too late or We are Doomed!!!
Time for a Revolution..We cannot stand back and be silent any longer..If Hillary wins we know the election was fixed, and we need to storm the WH and throw her fat ass out..She is just a figure head..The Saudis are pulling her strings..I wouldn’t be surprised if the reason the Reps haven’t done anything about it is that they have either been threatened, or set up, and Obama has some serious shit on them, because it makes no sense for that Muslim to do what he is doing with no resistence from the Reps..This Country needs to be cleansed, the corruption is out of control to the point where the Dems are doing it out in the open without a care in the world what the American people think, just like when Bill Clinton went on that plane ride with Loretta Lynch..He might as well have given us the finger.
Jan’s, I totally agree with everything you said in your comment. An Impeachment needs to be in motion NOW as we speak to stop that sorry, Good for Nothing, Goathumping Muslim and ISIS Leader. Then the FBI needs to grow a Set and go ahead and Arrest Hillary for her blatant abuse of her emails and also for Acts of Treason against Our Country. Trump then should be Appointed President of the United States of America. That is what I Think should happen!!
between obama giving away 33 Billion… and Hillary stealing $100 billion for her foundation from around the world…. someone really needs some prison time…. the two of the them are like bonnie and clyde
It was their money, in the first place, though!
I believe in my heart that Obama committed a treasonous act. When he apologized for the Crusades I knew which way the wind was blowing. He has done so much damage to our nation, stirred up so much division among the American people. His administration has about as much transparency as a sheet of lead. The only way Hillary can win is through fraud. This is not the nation that I enlisted for. I feel that I wasted my youth for nothing, my friends lives were wasted for nothing. I was an Infantryman, and I am ashamed of what my country has become. I’m ashamed of myself for defending Hillary and her cronies.
Well at least I know where to find the most ignorant people in the world
U are some Dumb MoFo’s